Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>:
> And of course, there will be a huge amount of false positives, because
> all the new chipsets have an ISA bridge built into the southbridge chip
> and it is there even when no ISA slots are present.
Yeah. That's what makes the lspci approach unusable for my purposes.
The approach I want to take is this:
1. Get guaranteed access to the DMI data, either via a /{proc,sys}/dmi
or /var/run/dmi initialized at boot time.
2. Develop an exception list of mobos that have ISA slots that don't
show up under DMI.
My logic would then be: if the box has PCI, and DMI shows no ISA slots,
and the motherboard is not on the exception list, then suppress ISA
questions.
This would be a kluge, but it would have the advantage that the exception
list is finite and can be expected to stop growing.
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